Hey Beautiful People, How’s your fierce living going? Blinkbar, LA’s premiere eyelash extension salon, opened a new location in West Hollywood, and I got to try out their services and #chitchat with the folks at Blinkbar about the quality of service that earned enough growth for a new location. Blinkbar’s new location is on Melrose in West Hollywood. It has an airy space with gold and blush accents that provide a

“Melanie, you know it’s easier for me to be on the streets finding my next high and running from the cops than to be in your dance class? But I have to thank you because you taught me discipline, which is something I’ve never had because my entire life, I would always run away when things got tough for me, but you wouldn’t let me

Having just closed a $7.5 million round in Series A funding, Vadio’s team is doing something right. Co-Founder Sam Oluwalana, known to his friends as SamO, shares how responding to a flyer for summer internship took him on a journey to co-found thriving video-streaming start-up Vadio. 1) It’s okay to abandon childhood dreams to pursue better ones. “My CEO [Bryce Clemmer] was putting

With over 7.5 million YouTube subscribers, the Pentatonix 2015 Grammy win for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella of “Daft Punk” demonstrates what Forbes’ Zack Greenburg describes as “a watershed moment for a cappella… The recognition could be indicative of a shift.” That shift is largely due to the accessibility of the YouTube platform. Anyone can easily upload videos from their smart phones onto YouTube

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Hey Beautiful People, How’s your fierce living going? Blogging is more than merely sharing an opinion on a topic or given product. It can involve styling photos, setting up an editorial calendar, storyboards, and more, all of which gets exhausting. That’s why it’s a major key to find a balance between, say, styling every image and using a stock image (with permission, of course). Organized

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All my life I’ve had to fight… …my hair that is. The text in Frida Kahlo’s 1940 “Autorretrato con pelo corto” (self-potrait with short hair) reads “Mira que si te quise, fué por el pelo, Ahora que estás pelona, ya no te quiero,” (Look, if I loved you it was because of your hair. Now that you are without hair, I don’t love you anymore.).

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Originally from El Paso, TX, Ashley Soto earned her BA cum laude from Amherst College and her MA from Ole Miss while teaching high school biology in critical needs high schools of Mississippi through the Mississippi Teacher Corps. Read More…